We're DDD finalists!
More big news! Thanks to your support, we were selected as finalists in the sanolfi aventis Data Design and Diabetes (DDD) Contest. We will be launching a month long pilot of the Ginger.io application with diabetes patients. If you missed our pitch at Demo Day in New York last month, watch it above.
We’re really excited about this opportunity to pilot the Ginger.io DDD app. People living with diabetes are up to two times more likely to suffer from stress, anxiety, and depression, making it more difficult to take medications faithfully and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Our goal with the DDD application is to lift the burden depression places on diabetic patients by using passively collected data to provide easy and effective social support.
People with depression often have a hard time reaching out to the people they need the most. This is where the DDD app comes in by interpreting texts, calls and other factors to determine a baseline behavior profile for users. Our system detects changes in individual behavior, signaling the patient’s care network when appropriate. If this works the way we believe it will, the application will be capable of identifying whether or not someone is about to or is currently having a significant change in their mental state, and provide an effective social intervention (i.e notification) to their care team.
We believe a social intervention like this is capable of having a powerful effect on a user’s health. And importantly, patient privacy is upheld throughout. Each user owns their data, and chooses when and with whom to share it.
With the help of two of our advisers, Jeff Gothelf (@jboogie / a lead UI and UX designer) and Richard Banfield (@freshtilledsoil / lead designer and CEO of Fresh Tilled Soil), we zoned in on (1) personalization and (2) simplicity as key goals for the design of this app. And using our application is simple:
1. Download the app
2. Set up your care network
3. Choose notification preferences
4. Go about your normal routine
We’re excited to be finalists in the Data Design Diabetes competition and we look forward to receiving feedback from the community! Thanks again for your support through this journey. We’ll be sharing more soon.
In the meantime, check out the DDD challenge blog.
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